Oklahoma is suing Johnson & Johnson for aggressively promoting sales of fentanyl.

I think it is wrong to aggressively promote sales of any medical treatment. We must establish that corporations are not entitled to human rights, so that they can't claim they have a "human right" to publicize medicines. But the issue goes beyond advertising. We must require drug companies to include "serving patients" alongside "making money" as their responsibilities, and require participation of patient representatives in business decisions about medicines.

EFF: Don't Let Encrypted Messaging Become a Hollow Promise.

The article presumes that nonfree programs such as WhatsApp are legitimate. I hope you know better.

More mobile phone scamming: companies can put charges on a person's phone bill and falsely claim person approved the payments.

The WTO ruled against some US states' support for local jobs that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

One thing the conman has shown us is that the US can defeat business-supremacy treaties if it attacks them. The US could force the WTO to back down from this, especially if it does so in a fair way, demanding to permit this practice for all countries.

However, the emissions reduction programs would be good even without this particular aspect.

"Cambridge Analytica may have become the byword for a scandal, but it's not entirely clear that anyone knows exactly what that scandal is."

To try to prevent election manipulation using systems that profile people is difficult. It requires outthinking the people who are looking for clever ways to use the databases to achieve their goals.

Preventing it by prohibiting data collection and profiling would be more reliable. If a database does not exist, there is no clever way to use it to undermine society.